List of personalities of the city of Boulogne-Billancourt
This is a list of personalities from the city of Boulogne-Billancourt . The list does not claim to be complete.
sons and daughters of the town
The city is the birthplace of:
- Jean-Paul Agon (* 1956), manager
- Florence Arthaud (1957-2015), sailor
- Élisabeth Badinter (* 1944), philosopher and professor
- Frigide Barjot (* 1962), artist and activist
- Paul Belmondo (* 1963), racing car driver and racing team owner
- Nicolas Berggruen (* 1961), investor
- Stéphane Bernadis (* 1974), figure skater
- Didier Berthet (* 1962), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Saint-Dié
- Pierre de Bethmann (* 1961), jazz pianist
- Bertrand Blier (* 1939), film director and screenwriter
- Vincent Bolloré (* 1952), businessman, industrialist and corporate raider
- Émile Bongiorni (1921-1949), football player
- Philippe Bonnin (* 1955), fencer
- Booba (born 1976), rapper
- Edmond Bourlier (1895–1935), racing car driver
- Eugenio Bruni (1884–1956), racing cyclist
- Michèle Buirette (* 1949), musician
- Daniel Buren (* 1938), painter and sculptor
- Guillaume Canet (* 1973), actor, director and screenwriter
- Leslie Caron (born 1931), film actress
- Jean-Baptiste Clément (1836–1903), chansonnier, composer
- Pascal Clément (1945–2020), politician
- Michel Combes (* 1962), manager
- Nina Companéez (1937–2015), screenwriter and director
- Martine de Cortanze (* 1945), rally, enduro and powerboat driver as well as journalist and author
- Axel Corti (1933–1993), Austrian director
- Édith Cresson (* 1934), politician
- Olivier Dassault (* 1951), politician
- Emmanuel Desurvire (* 1955), physicist
- Jean-Marie Dru (1947), association official
- Jean-Marc Fontaine (1944–2019), mathematician
- Diana Frank (* 1965), German-French actress
- Laurent Garnier (* 1966), musician, DJ and techno pioneer
- Pierrejean Gaucher (* 1958), jazz musician
- Anna Gavalda (* 1970), writer and journalist
- Louis Gérardin (1912–1982), cyclist
- Hippolyte Girardot (born 1955), actor
- Sara Giraudeau (born 1985), actress
- André Glucksmann (1937–2015), philosopher
- David Hallyday (* 1966), musician, son of Johnny Hallyday
- Raphaël Haroche (* 1975), singer
- Olivier Hutman (* 1954), jazz pianist
- Marie-Thérèse Ibos (1922–2011), violinist
- Henri Kagan (* 1930), chemist
- Sandrine Kiberlain (* 1968), actress
- Henri Lavagne (* 1939), ancient historian and classical archaeologist
- Marc Levy (* 1961), writer
- Thierry Lhermitte (born 1952), actor
- Pierre Lhomme (1930–2019), cameraman
- Vincent Lindon (born 1959), actor
- Christian Manen (* 1934), composer and music teacher
- Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière (* 1943), racing car driver and entrepreneur
- Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003), mathematician
- Jean-Christophe Mitterrand (* 1946), son of the former French President François Mitterrand
- Ariane Mnouchkine (* 1939), director
- Patrick Modiano (* 1945), writer
- Charles Napoléon (* 1950), politician and head of the Bonaparte family
- Nessbeal (born 1978), rapper
- Bulle Ogier (born 1939), actress
- Maud Olivier (* 1953), politician
- Edmond Pagès (1911–1987), racing cyclist
- Florence Parly (* 1963), politician
- Grégoire Peters (* 1961), jazz musician
- Claude Pinoteau (1925–2012), film director and screenwriter
- Jérôme Pradon (* 1964), actor and singer
- Louis Renault (1877-1944), engineer
- Pascale Roberts (1930–2019), actress
- Jean C. Roché (* 1931), ornithologist and bird song / bioacoustics researcher
- Cécilia Sarkozy (* 1957), model and former wife of Nicolas Sarkozy
- Claudia Solal (* 1971), jazz singer
- Théophile Tellier (1872–1955), colonial administrator
- Marie Trintignant (1962–2003), actress
- Gaspard Ulliel (* 1984), actor
- Marina de Van (* 1971), director, screenwriter and actress
- André de Victor (1898–1955), racing car driver
- Michael Vartan (* 1968), actor
- Ophélie Winter (* 1974), pop singer and actress
- Zazie (* 1964), singer
Connected to the city
The following died here:
- Eddie Barclay (1921–2005), music producer and music publisher
- Étienne Decroux (1898–1991), actor and pantomime, who also ran his pantomime school here for many years
- Jacques Deray (1929–2003), film director
- Edwige Feuillère (1907–1998), actress
- Juan Gris (1887–1927), painter
- Claude Jade (1948–2006), actress
- Albert Kahn (1860–1940), banker
- Paul Landowski (1875–1961), sculptor
- Mathieu Montcourt (1985-2009), tennis player
- Emmanuel Roblès (1914–1995), writer
- Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818–1881), chemist
- François Villiers (1920–2009), holder of the order Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur , director and screenwriter